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Mick Brant, chief executive officer for Grace Cottage Hospital in Townshend, VT, will be the new administrator of Gothenburg Memorial Hospital.
Pending approval by GMH board members Thursday, Brant will begin duties on Nov. 19.The 45-year-old said he and his wife, Laura, are excited about the new job and moving to Gothenburg in early November.
"We fell in love with Gothenburg, and with all the people we met," he said about a recent visit to town. "And the hospital is spectacular."
Laura is a radiology technologist and has directed diagnostic imaging at a couple of hospitals, he said.
Another reason Brant said the couple wanted to move to Gothenburg is to be closer to family members who live in Yuma, CO.
They especially want grandparents and other relatives to better know the couple's 18-month-old son, Caden.
Brant has administrated a 185-person staff at Grace Cottage Hospital for nearly five years.
The critical access hospital is a 19-bed inpatient facility for acute and rehabilitative care with a 24-hour emergency department for critical care treatment, a hospice suite, rehabilitation department, laboratory and radiology departments and a pharmacy.
At GMH, he will manage a staff of 100 people.
Brant said he brings vision to the job and relationship-building collaboration with staff, patients and the community.
"I'm more about strategic iniatives and positive organization for the future," he said.
One of the biggest challenges facing small hospitals like GMH, Brant said, is uncertainty about health-care reform. Payment reform and population health management are driving that reform, he noted.
Dr. Carol Shackleton, who headed a four-member search committee to find a new administrator, said there were about 40 applicants for the position.
Shackleton said she liked Brant after the first interview.
"He's from a rural community and understands the rural lifestyle," she said, noting that Brant's community values and mores will mesh well with the way Gothenburg functions.
"He's also progressive and technologically savvy in terms of the Internet and other social media," Shackleton said, noting that Brant has installed electronic medical records which GMH plans to install.
The contract of the hospital's former administrator was terminated in February. Kayleen Dudley is acting interim CEO and will work closely with Brant as he makes the transition.
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Tom Leppert, the former Dallas mayor who finished third in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, endorsed David Dewhurst following Tuesday's night debate.
"Our economy is struggling with millions of Americans out of work and many more worried about their jobs," Leppert said in a press release. "In addition, we have a fiscal situation that has brought us literally to the brink. Far too many of our elected representatives in Washington simply do not have the experience of working in the private sector. They have not created jobs or balanced budgets. Simply said, they do not understand how the economy works."
Leppert attracted slightly more moderate primary voters than Dewhurst and certainly more moderate than tea party favorite Ted Cruz. If the Leppert folks vote at all in the July 31 runoff, they're likely to go for Dewhurst.
In his statement, Leppert took a backhand swipe at Cruz, a former state solicitor general who's never held elective office.
"We must elect leaders who have the experience of creating jobs and dealing with the fiscal issues facing our nation – leaders with a practical understanding of what makes our country work," he said. "David Dewhurst has that experience and it is for that reason that I endorse David Dewhurst for the U.S. Senate. David has created jobs and understands the private sector. He has proven his leadership skills in the private and public sectors and will be an asset to Texas in Washington."
Dewhurst also took a swipe at Cruz, the attorney and champion debater.
"The skills necessary to fight for our country's economy were instilled in me in the boardroom, not the courtroom," he said after thanking Leppert for his support. "And the strength necessary to fight for country's freedom was instilled in me in boot camp, not debate camp."

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Declining Concentration of HIV in Correctional Facilities, but 20 Percent of HIV-Infected People in the U.S. Have Been in a Correctional Facility
An Interview With Anne Spaulding, M.D., M.P.H., and Matthew Page, M.P.P.
February 11, 2009
There's nothing like hearing the results of studies directly from those who actually conducted the research. In this interview, you'll meet two of these impressive HIV researchers and read their explanation of a study they presented at CROI 2009.
Anne Spaulding: I'm Dr. Anne Spaulding, and I'm from Rollins School of Public Health.
Matt Page: Matt Page, also from Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
Anne Spaulding: We're presenting a poster on how the share of the burden of HIV/AIDS has declined in U.S. correctional releasees, but the numbers have not.1
Could you please talk us through the poster?
Anne Spaulding: The thing that this poster highlights is that the portion of the HIV epidemic that is represented by the millions of people that go through jails and prisons is a smaller percentage of the overall U.S. epidemic than it was a decade ago.
In 1997, there was a paper that was written by Ted Hammett called "The Burden of Infectious Disease Among Inmates and Releasees From U.S. Correctional Facilities," and that was published in The American Journal of Public Health in 2002. That showed that over 20 percent of all of the people who were infected with HIV passed through either a jail or a prison.
The take-home message from that paper was, if you want to find people with HIV, especially folks who may not have good access to care, go to where people pass through, and that would be jails and prisons. That was a public health opportunity that was often missed.
Since that time, the prevalence of people who are admitted to jails and prisons has been going down. We did a recalculation of what portion of the epidemic is represented by the people who go in and out of jails and prisons, and we found that not only is the prevalence going down, but the portion of the epidemic has gone down.
What's important, though, to realize with that is that, at the same time, the sheer number of people who are HIV infected has remained almost unchanged.
So, our calculations were based on data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics in 2005. We have shown that about 150,000 individuals were released from jails and prisons in 1997. In 2005, about 150,000 individuals were released from jails and prisons. So there is no reason to stop looking in jails and prisons for public health opportunities for interventions -- to prevent HIV, to diagnose HIV that's already been transmitted, to start people on care and to have discharge planning so people will be released to care on the outside.
But what has happened in the past decade is that there are more people in the United States who are infected. We have gone from probably around 775,000 people in 1997 who were infected to over a million people. At the forefront of the epidemic now, new cases are occurring in women. New cases are occurring in populations that have a lower propensity to go through jails and prisons. So, just that the denominator has increased is probably what has led to having the share go down.
Could you explain what you mean when you say that the share has gone down but the numbers have stayed stable?
Anne Spaulding: Think of it as a fraction. On the bottom part of the fraction, in the denominator that number is the number of people in the U.S. who have HIV. On the top number is the number of people that go through jails and prisons; that's the numerator.
What has happened in the past decade is that the denominator has increased without a change in the numerator. That means that the part of the pie -- if you want to look at it as a graph -- that is represented by this population, is a smaller slice of a pie, but that the pie has gotten larger, as a whole. That means that the need has not changed.
People are not parts of a pie, and I'm not trying to imply that at all. But it just means that this is a smaller part of the whole epidemic. So, this is not good news.
Matt Page: To sum it up, the relative numbers have changed, have gone down, but the absolute numbers have not changed. It's still a large population for case finding and prevention.
What are the numbers, actually, currently? Is there some sort of approximate number of people who pass in and out of prisons in a yearly basis?
Anne Spaulding: I would say that number is probably around 150,000. The prevalence of HIV is 1.7 percent in jails and prisons. So that's a pretty high percentage of persons.
The majority of people going through jails and prisons are not HIV infected. Sometimes if people have watched too much TV, they think everyone in prisons and jails is HIV infected. By far, that is not the case.
But do we actually know the right numbers? Throughout the United States, are people getting in and out of jails and prisons tested for HIV? Do we actually know their status?
Anne Spaulding: There's not universal testing of everyone who goes through jails and prisons. I think prisons are probably in the right neighborhood of determining how many people are infected.
In jails, I think, it's much more of an open book. With the advent of rapid testing for HIV, we now have a technology to diagnose HIV at a pace that is the same as the pace of people going through jails and prisons. There was a paper that just came out this month, actually, with Robin McGowan as the first author, that is looking at the uptake of rapid testing in jails. He found that 0.8 percent -- so, 8 people out of 1,000 -- who went through jails were not only infected with HIV, but were infected and were previously undiagnosed. So it's very, very low-hanging fruit for public health to go and target for a place where people can be brought into the health care system when they have previously not had access.
Do you have an ethnic breakdown of the people who are HIV infected in prisons?
Anne Spaulding: I think the answer to the question of: Do we have an ethnic breakdown? Is, sort of. We have tried to do that analysis with some incomplete data. One of the problems is that when the Bureau of Justice Statistics gets information from the prisons and jails as to the racial and ethnic makeup of the populations, they will look at gender as a whole, so this percent are female, this percent are male -- and then, separately, they will say what percent are African-American -- well, they say black, white, or Hispanic. The characterization of the Hispanic -- whether or not Hispanic/black, Hispanic/white -- is not always spelled out. Then that's different from the self-declared racial identification.
But with all those caveats, looking at inmate surveys of people who consider themselves African American, and from surveys that were done earlier this decade, we probably have about 20 percent of the epidemic of HIV-infected African-American men pass through a prison or a jail in a given year, and are released from a prison or a jail. And over 19 percent is very similar to the percentage of people who -- the whole epidemic that went through jails and prisons back in 1997.
These numbers caused a lot of headlines years ago, that close to one out of five people were passing through a prison or a jail. The numbers are unchanged for African-American men.
What about a gender breakdown?
Anne Spaulding: The portion of the epidemic that is passing through jails and prisons; it's a very small portion of the epidemic in women in the United States. It is still a very large portion of the epidemic that is in men, and we have had more people who are infected among women. That's where we're having a lot of the new infections. So, still, a substantial portion of HIV among men, of all races, is still represented in the correctional population.
Are you hoping that policies will change, or things will change, particularly in this administration, regarding this population?
Anne Spaulding: Very much so. I think the opportunity that we have right now is to look at the jails and prisons as an opportunity to have people be offered HIV testing.
I think, especially in jails, where people are all presumed innocent, we don't want to force testing for HIV. But we should at least give people the opportunity to access that as part of routine health care.
The CDC [U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] has just come out with guidelines for testing within corrections, and this is a wonderful opportunity. Everyone in the United States who goes through a jail or prison has a right to have their health care not be disregarded. If this is part of the health care that people are having, this should be part of the health care in every setting, including the health care in jails and prisons.
I think the opportunity we have that's most important would be routine testing, routine offering, and routine screening for HIV, especially among the persons who go through jails. I think also we have an opportunity for linkage to care.
Right now, there's a study that's been funded by HRSA [Health Resources and Services Administration], looking at opportunities to link people who are going through HIV to care in the community upon release. I think that particular demonstration project will show best practices.
Thank you very much for taking the time to talk with me.
Anne Spaulding: Thank you.
This article was provided by TheBodyPRO. It is a part of the publication The 16th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.


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Persuade versus convince
Combining the powerful effects of convincing and persuading can give marketers a winning approach when communicating with healthcare professionals.
In a recent blog post, Seth Godin writes, "Marketers don't convince. Engineers convince. Marketers persuade. Persuasion appeals to the emotions and to fear and to the imagination. Convincing requires a spreadsheet or some other rational device." Interesting thinking. Works great if you're selling cars or soft drinks. Not sure it applies to the world of pharmaceutical marketing—particularly that of healthcare professionals (HCPs).
One aspect of marketing pharmaceuticals I have most enjoyed over the years is the subtle interplay between the art of persuasion and the discipline of convincing. In any interaction with an HCP, you need elements of both to be successful.
Even the origins of the words themselves, while being very different, can allow you to see how they could become a powerful combination. Literally, convince comes from the Latin vincere, "to conquer"; persuade, on the other hand, stems from suadere, "to advise" or "to make something pleasant." When you intertwine their meanings, you have the very essence—and excitement—of pharmaceutical marketing.
Doctors are trained to be skeptics; they develop a hypothesis and then either prove it or disprove it. So when you speak to them, you must also think this way.
When an HCP is convinced of something, he or she can be persuaded—but not the other way around.
Yet typically, this approach is the opposite of the way that advertising works in the non-pharmaceutical world, which says show me something that stimulates my senses and then tell me why I can't live without it!
What it really comes down to, then, is the dialogue that takes place between you, the marketer, and your audience, the HCP. When you create a meaningful dialogue with your customer by providing real world data, you lay the foundation for a long and productive relationship.
Over the course of the dialogue, you can set up convincing arguments that will persuade your audience to see your point of view. But that's not always easy. It can be like pitching a tent in a windstorm: If you haven't properly tied down one side before you move on to the next, then your whole tent will most likely blow away!
The problem is that the "conversation" with HCPs often happens in 15-second sound bites, which occur intermittently over months in a variety of media that may include sales calls, journal ads, emails, and websites. So it's critical that you build your brand and ultimately your campaigns so they incorporate elements that both persuade and convince and are consistent in their design.
Stay true to your overall strategy, be disciplined in your approach to campaign development, execute consistently across all media, and you will be in a much better position to convince and persuade your customers to prescribe your brand.


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The 39-year-old actress has been vacationing in Los Cabos, Mexico for several days, amidst rumors that she has been calling her ex-boyfriend John Mayer and wants to work on the relationship.


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On the 25th of july, for the 21st time, Ischgl will play host to one of the toughest mountain bike marathons in Europe. Top, international pros and ambitious leisure-oriented riders will do battle for a total of 21,140 Euro in prize money. This makes Ischgl Ironbike the highest prize money of any mountain bike marathon in Europe.
The routes for Ischgl Ironbike will inspire all riders. Participants can choose from three different route lengths, even while the race is underway. The short circuit covering 27.5 kilometres and 755 metres altitude, which was re-designed for 2012, is intended for ambitious leisure riders who want to get a taste of the competitive atmosphere.
Things get more challenging from the middle distance event. The climb to the Idalpe is indeed on asphalt, but it is steep and really saps your strength. The climb continues via a gravel track up to Vellilscharte and presents a genuine challenge to very fit riders. In total, there some 1200 non-stop metres altitude uphill has to be negotiated. The subsequent descent through the Velliltal Valley on the super trail designed by mountain bike legend Hans Rey and constructed by the Vert Riders, will help you forget the efforts of the climb - 1200 metres altitude of pure descending fun down to the finish in Ischgl. The middle distance event is 48 kilometres in length and covers some 2050 metres altitude.
Ischgl Ironbike provides an even longer circuit for those of you for whom this is still not enough. From the route split above the Idalpe, the 'king' distance proceeds to the Idjoch, continuing up to the Greitspitze. At an altitude of over 2800 metres the Greitspitz trail begins; this is a demanding single trail with a stunning Alpine panorama. After this the Salaaser Trail provides the ultimate riding fun. The route continues down to Samnaun and a long ascent across the Zeblasjoch to Palinkopf, again at around 2800 metres. The descent to Ischgl is once again interrupted by two short, but tough, climbs. After covering a total of 79 kilometres and 3800 metres altitude the heroes of Ischgl Ironbike cross the finish line, exhausted.


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Amanda McCarthy was a nervous wreck in the stands. Her husband was as calm as could be on the mound.
Brandon McCarthy methodically struck out four in two innings in his first game since a horrific head injury, an impressive return that overshadowed all else in the Diamondbacks' 14-6 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday.
McCarthy, signed to a two-year deal by the Diamondbacks as a free agent, gave up one run on three hits. He had not taken the mound in a game since Sept. 5 when he was struck in the head by a line drive off the bat of the Angels' Erick Aybar while pitching for Oakland. McCarthy sustained an epidural hemorrhage, brain contusion and skull fracture.
Reds ace Johnny Cueto, in his first start since he was injured early in last year's playoffs, went two innings, allowing four runs, two earned, on five hits with a strikeout and a walk.
Amanda McCarthy, something of a celebrity in her own right with more than 26,000 Twitter followers, had been unusually quiet on her Twitter account as game time approached.
"I was pretty nervous. I was kind of getting shaky," she said. "My girlfriends were trying to distract me and talk to me. I'm not a very nervous person in general when he pitches, but obviously this is a unique situation."
Then she watched her husband strike out Billy Hamilton, Joey Votto and Ryan Ludwick in the first inning.
The only blemish came when rookie center fielder Adam Eaton got a late break on Denis Phipps deep fly ball off McCarthy leading off the second and it went over his head for a triple. Neftali Soto brought Phipps home with a sacrifice fly, then Jack Hannahan was caught looking for McCarthy's fourth strikeout.
"I felt my rhythm was good, my game pace was good," McCarthy said, "all the things I'd like to have even later in spring I felt were good."
The tall right-hander, working to add a changeup to his repertoire, threw 31 pitches, 22 strikes.
"He was awesome," his wife said. "Did he strike out like a million?"
McCarthy said he had no mental hurdle to clear and felt no more nervous than he did approaching any other spring training opener. He said he refuses to dwell on what was a life-threatening injury or even reflect on it, except when he is asked about it.
"I would assume it becomes less of a hot issue, less questions about it, or at least they'll kind of thin out, which is a good thing," he said. "For me it really can't get more behind me than it is, but just in terms of answering questions about it, it will probably go away. But I think I'll always kind of be 'that' guy, to a point where that's just one of the defining markers. I have to try and pitch well enough to get out of that but it will always kind of be there."
McCarthy joked that he might reflect a bit more if he goes on to have an outstanding career.
"That's when you make a ton of money on the motivational speaker's tour. I'll cash in then," he said. "But otherwise I want it to be a footnote at best. It's just something that happened, something that was scarier for the fans or my family than anybody else. That's it for me. It was just a bad day and not a great pitch."
There were no sharp comebacks to the mound for McCarthy to deal with, but he must know that will come.
"When that one came back straight that went way into center I thought he was going to hit the deck, because I did," his wife said. "But he looks good. I know that he knew what he was doing, and he wouldn't get out there if he felt uncomfortable."
Cueto, ordered by the Reds not to participate for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic that begins next week, made his first game appearance since he went down with a strained right oblique eight pitches into last season's NL division series against San Francisco.
He brushed aside the results and said he was just glad to be back on the mound and feeling good.
"That is just what I wanted to do, get out there and pitch to hitters," Cueto said. "I threw about 40 pitches. I didn't feel my oblique. I felt nothing in it. I gave up some hits but I was able to throw what I wanted to, thank God."
The first of Aaron Hill's two doubles drove in two runs off Cueto after three-time Gold Glove second baseman Brandon Phillips bobbled a double-play grounder in the opening inning.
A Reds lineup of mostly minor leaguers outscored its Arizona counterpart 13-2 over the last four innings.
NOTES: Because Cueto finished the season injured, the Reds had the right to block his participation in the World Classic. ... Arizona C Miguel Montero was back in the lineup after missing two games with a swollen right thumb. ... Phillips, who figures to be the everyday second baseman for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic, had five errors all of last season. ... Team USA is scheduled to hold its only pre-WBC workout Monday at Scottsdale's Salt River Fields, the spring home of Arizona and Colorado.


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text: Aging Parents: During emergency, details count Do you know the names of your parents' doctors? Their health insurance policy numbers? Take time now to gather these and other essential details about your parents' health. Mayo Clinic Housecall By Mayo Clinic Staff If your aging parents were to have a medical emergency, could you provide the information doctors would need to care for them? For example, do you know the names of their doctors? Is your mother taking any medications? Has your father ever had surgery? It only takes a few minutes to collect and write down this vital information - and it can save precious time in an emergency. To get started, consider seven things you should know about your aging parents' health. 1. Names of their doctors If you don't know much about your aging parents' health, start by collecting their doctor's names and contact details. Why? In case of an emergency, your parents' doctors can likely provide specific details about your parents' health histories, medications and other important facts. 2. Birth dates and insurance information Medical records and insurance information are often cataloged according to birth date. Knowing your parents' birth dates may help improve communication in an emergency or crisis. It's also helpful to know the name and phone number of your parents' health insurance provider, as well as their policy numbers. 3. Allergies and other medical conditions A list of known allergies may prove invaluable during an emergency - especially if one of your parents is allergic to a specific medication, such as penicillin. It's also important to note your parents' medical conditions, such as diabetes or heart disease, as well as past surgeries and major medical procedures, such as implantation of a pacemaker. 4. Medications and supplements Your parents' use of medications or supplements may play a role in treatment options during an emergency. Blood thinners, for example, could lead to heavy bleeding, and certain vitamins or herbal supplements could interact with medications given in an emergency situation. 5. Advance directives Advance directives are instructions about future health care, such as whether to use life-support machines or attempt resuscitation. Advance directives outline your parents' wishes should they be unable to make medical decisions for themselves. Understanding your parents' advance directives can help you make decisions in case of an emergency. 6. Lifestyle information Do your parents drink alcohol or use tobacco? Do they eat balanced diets? Do they participate in any physical activities? Understand your parents' religious beliefs, too, in case these beliefs could influence treatment decisions. 7. Privacy considerations You may want to ask your parents to sign a release form that allows doctors and others to speak with you about your parents' medical care. This may not be necessary in case of an emergency - such as if a parent loses consciousness - but it's a good idea to clarify upfront the type and amount of information your parents are comfortable having you receive from health care providers, insurance companies and others involved in your parents' medical care. Remember, the more you know about your parents' health, the better prepared you'll be to handle an emergency


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Make no mistake about it Kyle Boswell can shoot the basketball.
If there were any questions about Boswell's ability to shoot, they were conclusively answered during his junior year in 2012-13 when he made 78 three-point baskets, the third most by a Gaucho in a single season. Boswell shot 41.9% from outside the three-point arc and set a career-high with he made seven in one game against nationally ranked San Diego State.
Boswell finished last season averaging 13.0 points and 2.0 rebounds per game. He averaged 14.1 points per game in Big West play and following the year was named Honorable Mention All-Big West as well as the league's Sixth Man of the Year. In a late-season game against Hawaii, he scored a career-high 27 points.
A mechanical engineering major at UCSB, Boswell sports a 3.81 grade point average entering his senior year. He was the Gauchos' Big West Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2012-13, is a two-time Academic All-Big West honoree and he has earned two Golden Eagle Awards for academic excellence. In addition, the Huntington Beach native is a member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.
Boswell and the rest of the UCSB men's basketball team will tip-off the 2013-14 season on Sunday, Nov. 3 when they host Cal State East Bay in an exhibition game that will tip-off at 2:00 p.m. in the Thunderdome.
Great season ticket packages are available for the Gauchos. The non-conference schedule includes Cal, which will be making its first appearance in Santa Barbara since it helped christen the Thunderdome in 1979, as well as old rival Utah State and 2013 NCAA Tournament participant South Dakota State.
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DOVER — Lee's Danielle Walczak scored a career-high 20 points for the University of Maine women's basketball team in a recent 69-64 loss to Towson.
She also had seven rebounds, two steals and one assist.
The former Oyster River High School star is currently second in scoring (9.4 points per game) and rebounding (5.0) for the Black Bears, who are off to a 1-12 start.
Walczak, a sophomore, has appeared in 10 games, all starts, and is averaging 28.1 minutes per game to rank second on the team.
She also had 11 points and eight rebounds in an 82-47 loss to Virginia Commonwealth.
Barrington's Lindsay Moore had 14 points, 14 rebounds and five steals for the Saint Joseph's College women's basketball team, which snapped a four-game losing streak with a 58-44 win over Lyndon State.
Dover's John Boyatsis had 16 points, including four 3-pointers, five rebounds and two assists off the bench for the Keene State men's basketball team in an 89-80 victory over Montclair State in the consolation game of the Team Hill Holiday Classic in New Jersey.
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text: JimLucas Posted December 26, 2003 Concerning the matter of "flow" with different keyboard systems you find few keyboards which are independent of what key is used. There are some which may be seen a superior in this case.... like the 5 row button accordion, the Janko piano, the Wicki/Hayden (if large enough) and a couple of others. The above seems to presuppose that "more independent" ("more uniform"?) is "superior". Even ignoring the question of what definition is used for "independent", I don't believe in that supposition as a fundamental principle. On the contrary, I find "independence" and "superiority" to be quite context dependent, depending especially on what kinds of music or arrangements are being played. You can probably find several factors included in "flow" ...including relaxed movements and 'speed' of movements. "Relaxed movements"... definitely. "Speed"? I think that's secondary, not a component of "flow", but a consequence of comfortable flow. As a broad English-language concept, "flow" implies smoothness and continuity, and it can be either fast or slow. In a musical context, I consider it to mean that such smoothness and continuity is possible, but also that it is controllable... i.e., that it is possible to control the amount of smoothness, both legato vs. stacatto and uniformity of note durations. In Irish music, e.g., the durations of individual notes within a measure can vary considerably, even though the individual measures are of uniform duration. "Relaxed" or "comfortable" movements are necessary for such control. Disregarding the key relations the factors influencing "flow" seem to be the possibility to use regular patterns of finger movements - like climbing a ladder - and using natural positions for fingers - not crossing,twisting or changing direction of movements. Not all patterns that are "regular" are "comfortable", nor vice versa. For "flow", I think "comfortable" is a relevant criterion, but "regular" -- per se -- is not. There may be other reasons for considering "regular" to be a positive attribute, but I don't think "flow" is such a reason. I agree that the awkwardness of extremely distorted positions for the hand and fingers hinder "flow", but many conformations that initially seem awkward can become comfortable through practice. Cursive writing with a pen is an example. If we broaden the scope to the rest of the body, proper technique with a tennis racket or golf club and riding a bicycle are others. The English, the Crane,and the Maccann are all key-dependent for respective "flow" and it also differs between 'whole note' or 'half note' (=chromatic) "flow". My first reaction was, "So what?" It may take longer to learn to transpose or play in different keys on one system than another, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the quicker-to-learn systems are necessarily more comfortable or "fluid" once learned. Still, the ability to reach competence without investing too much time or effort is worth something, and a totally random layout of notes would probably be an impediment. So my second reaction is to consider how strong the key dependence of each system is, and how significant that is to learning and playing. First, I should address the keyboards Göran cites as regular: ... The 5-row CBA (chromatic button accordion) achieves its absolute uniformity by duplicating 2 rows of what is inherently a 3-row system. I don't know of any attempts to implement such a system on a concertina, and I'm not sure that it's possible to do so and still have a reasonable range within reach of the hands. I suspect that if it is, a "handle" system like that on the English concertina would be necessary, as the bar-and-strap of existing duets doesn't provide adequate freedom in the direction parallel to the fingers. ... The Hayden and Janko layouts are essentially the same, differing only in the offset between adjacent rows, so my comments on the Hayden apply to both: To obtain complete uniformity in the same manner as the 5-row CBA, the Hayden layout would have to be 11 buttons wide, something quite unmanageable without some means of shifting the hand sideways relative to the keyboard to play in different keys. I know of no attempts to do this, at least not in a concertina-type instrument; the alternative has been to limit the side-to-side compass, with the result that uniformity exists in at most 6 of the 12 possible key signatures. In existing instruments even this uniformity fails toward both upper and lower ends of the keyboard, as does full chromaticity. Comparisons of actual playing fluidity can be made only on actual instruments, not on theoretical ones, and actual Haydens are a far from the key-independence of the theoretical model. English - for playing scales in 'natural keys' it is evidently 'designed' firstly for C major and if the outer rows are used Eb major in my view is the next best key. English - Built around a central diatonic key (usually C), but with the remaining notes of the chromatic scale placed for easy (both conceptual and physical) access both as accidentals in the central key and for transposition into most nearby keys. In fact, 8 of the 12 possible keys (in equal temperament) conform to the same pattern as the central key. In a strict geometric sense the equality is approximate rather than absolute, but approximate equality is the rule in human experience, and exact equality is the exception. Crane - being quite a bit resembling the English - is typically based on C major and has excellent flow in C major scale. "Resembling the English" depends on which features of the English system are used for comparison, and Göran doesn't identify which he means. There's certainly no correspondence to the English feature of notes of the diatonic scale alternating between the ends of the instrument. But there definitely are other similarities: ...1) The "interior" rows (2 in the English, 3 in the Crane) contain the notes of a central diatonic scale (usually, though not always, C in both cases). The "exterior" rows (1 on either side of the button layout) in each contain the accidentals, and (assuming a central key of C) each accidental is located beside an adjacent natural note. ...2) Transposition to a key differing by one accidental (an interval of a fifth in the English, of a fourth in the Crane) is accomplished by shifting the fingers "up" or "down" by one button, and shifting one note of the scale from an interior to an exterior row, or vice versa. (This is the approximate equality mentioned above for the English.) Beyond these central concepts, the regularity of the Crane layout is less than that of the English, because the English has an overabundance of buttons for accidentals relative to natural notes, while the Crane has a deficit. In the English, each accidental is located beside the same natural note in every octave; in the Crane it is not, and if the keyboard were extended far enough there would not be enough buttons for all the accidentals. However, a range of more than three octaves in a single hand is possible before it becomes necessary to locate an accidental elsewhere than beside an adjacent natural note. Maccann - despite also 'based' on C major is a bit less dependent on the fundamental key and scales in other keys may be more attractive than with the English or Crane. "Less dependent"?!! Göran, what do you mean by that? On both the English and Crane there are scales in different keys that have very close -- if not precisely identical -- geomterical configurations. On the Maccann I don't find this to be even approximately true for any two keys. The greater spread of the fingers and greater key-independent regularity compared with the Crane might speak for Maccann. The 6-button wide configuration of the Maccann means less extension parallel to the fingers for a given range compared to the 5-wide Crane, which may be an advantage to someone with short fingers. As for "key-independent regularity", I don't believe it exists. But in listening to competent Maccann players, its absence doesn't appear to be a serious obstacle to musical flow. Even though a major emphasis among many Maccann players seems to be toward heavily chordal ("rich", if you like) arrangements, I have heard a couple of Maccann players do beatiful, sparser arrangements, including fine chording against brisk melodies. A major motive for K.V. Chidley when reforming the Maccann system was getting better "flow" by making the note layout more regular. While Chidley does claim "flow" to be one of his design criteria, my personal feeling is that the "adjustment" of the pre-Chidley Maccann layout in the upper octave actually improves the "flow" over the strict geometrical duplication (except for the highest C) of the Chidley "improvement". (I do like Chidley's repositioning of the D and D#, however.) Was Chidley known as a performer on the duet? Did/do any of the (other?) known performers prefer the Chidley system? One more comment regarding "flow": Chidley says, "I mean by 'flow,' that smooth rhythm in scale-playing that is essential for the proper performance of music. The English system has this 'flow' to a high degree." But there is much more to music than scale-playing. Smooth -- or controlled, as I prefer -- playing must not depend on note sequences comprising scales; it must be possible to play a variety and even a majority of arbitrary note sequences fluidly to claim a general quality of fluidity. I think even sequences of 2- and 3-note combinations should be considered in assessing flow. Chromatic runs are simply a nuisance with all three.... I quite disagree... with regard to all three. While it may take some practice to gain facility with a chromatic scale, I don't find the scale to be inherently awkward on any of them,... nor on the Hayden, for that matter. I personally find it easiest on the English, next on the Crane, and least fluid on the Maccann, but those differences may represent nothing more than my own relative competence on the three instruments. In my view the best system generally speaking for "flow" used on British style concertinas (if runs in C major with the English are excluded...) was the Wheatstone "Double" but despite being 'based' on chromatism it also presents problems on runs due to the fixed position of the hand compared to the 5 row button accordion (in principle almost the same 'idea') The "5-row" CBA layout is really a 3-row layout, with duplications. A corresponding duplication in the 4-row Wheatstone "Double" layout would result in a 7-button-wide layout, as uniform as the 5-row CBA. The potential of such a system is interesting, but I don't know that anyone has ever attempted to build one. At last...it can not be questioned that for single note playing the "flow" of the English is superior to any duet due to the simple fact that two hands may be used for the same job.... Not just for single-note playing, in my experience, but also for certain multi-note arrangements. All duets, on the other hand, should be superior for arbitrary 2-voice arrangements, as long as each part can be confined to a single hand. (I would, however, dispute the claim that "it cannot be questioned" on general philosophical grounds. There is nothing that cannot be questioned, even though there may be some questions which can be shown to have only one valid answer.) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Jazz vocalist Catherine Russell will perform with her Trio on Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Weis Center for the Performing Arts Lobby at Bucknell University. Prior to the concert, there will be a pre-performance talk from 6:45 to 7:15 p.m. in the lobby.
The performance is free and open to the public; tickets are not required. The event is sponsored, in part, by Clayton and David Lightman and Family.
A curator of lesser known blues, jazz and swing tunes, Russell breathes new life into standards and "should be" standards. The Philadelphia Inquirer describes her as "a masterful singer who knows how to inject her personality into the heart of a great song."
Winner of a prestigious German Record Critics' Award and a Hot Club of France Discovery Award,
Russell is a native New Yorker born with an enviable musical pedigree. Her father, Luis Russell, became a pioneering pianist/composer/bandleader and Louis Armstrong's long-time musical director. Her mother, Carline Ray, is a bassist, guitarist and vocalist who has performed with Mary Lou Williams and International Sweethearts of Rhythm.
After graduating with honors from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Russell embarked upon a rich journey backing artists like Carrie Smith, Steely Dan, David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper, Paul Simon, Jackson Browne, Michael Feinstein and Rosanne Cash.
Her 2006 debut album, "Cat", garnered rave reviews, paving the way for her 2008 release, "Sentimental Streak." Her 2010 album, "Inside This Heart of Mine", reached number 1 on JazzWeek, Roots Music Report, and I-Tunes Jazz Charts.
Her most recent album, "Strictly Romancin'," was released in February 2012. The 14-song collection takes the listener on a journey - from Harlem dance hall, to Parisian café, to store front church, to New Orleans gin joint, to uptown cabaret in a musical tour de force.
Russell has been a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, PBS-TV's Tavis Smiley Show and NPR's Fresh Air, Piano Jazz, Mountain Stage, World Café, JazzSet and Riverwalk Jazz. She performs on various compilations including the Soundtrack Album for the HBO-TV show Boardwalk Empire, NPR's The New Jazz Divas, Putumayo Presents Rhythm & Blues, and Walkin' and Swingin' from The Kennedy Center's Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival.
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A little bird could hold the fate of Mono County in its sharp talons
It is hard to imagine that the fate of Mono County might rest not in its mountains, not in its ski hills, or bike trails or world renown trails, but in something far more innocuous.
A little bird, no bigger than a chicken.
Clucking and clattering not too far outside the Mammoth Yosemite Airport and a half dozen other places in the county, sage grouse is at the center of a nation-wide storm that most people are oblivious to, but that could determine the county's ability to grow, diversify, and thrive.
That is because the little duff-colored, fan-tailed bird is just one step away from being listed as a federally endangered species. If that happens, the 1973 Endangered Species Act's powerful regulations allow it to stop projects that might negatively impact the bird's ability to survive.
It's why the ESA is the bane of the oil and gas industry, and the Holy Grail for habitat and wildlife advocates. It was the main issue that concerned developers of the Mammoth Yosemite Airport, which happens to be located very near a population of the grouse.
The bird has been treading the threatened or endangered line for decades, as land managers in both Nevada and California try to figure out ways to keep it off the much-feared endangered species list.
Listing the bird would mean every action that might affect the bird in a negative way—from expanding an airport runway to building a new school to putting in a bike or OHV trail—must be scrutinized and approved by the federal Fish and Wildlife Service.
Any action that would possibly cause any drop in the bird's number could possibly be outright banned, making the ESA one of the most powerful laws in the nation for wildlife advocates.
In Mono County, the bird lives, breeds and nests in the great, rolling sage flats that give it its primary source of food. This area covers much of the Eastern Sierra in places like Long Valley near Crowley, or the flats above Fales Hotspring on U.S. 395 west of Devil's Gate summit
Even though the little bird has the potential to change the way the county does—or does not do—business, the whole grouse issue mostly stays in the background these days due to a recession that has brought development projects to a stop.
After years of stability with the grouse—no terrifying slumps in numbers but no dramatic surges that would move the bird far away from the list either—something is finally changing.
During the Mono County Board of Supervisor meeting Tuesday, March 5, Steve Nelson with the Bureau of Land Management said that California and Nevada have created such a strong management and cooperative data sharing protocol for the grouse that it has become a primer for other states struggling with the same issues across the country.
"After not taking this issue that seriously for years, we have made tremendous progress," he said. "I know we can do this, I know we can keep this bird from being listed."
The Mono County Board of Supervisors, who have been hearing updates on the little birds for the past decade, were wary, but hopeful.
"At some point, the economy is going to come back and there will be development pressure in areas where the birds live," said Supervisor Byng Hunt.
"I'm glad this new program is getting ahead of this instead of constantly playing catch-up."


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If you are bothered by oncoming headlights when driving at night, you are not alone.
But there are things you can do and driving techniques you can learn to reduce the problem
The issue is improper or misaligned headlights and/or our own eyes
HID (High Intensity Discharge) headlights first appeared here on high-end automobiles in 1996. These bright, white lights are a treat if you are behind them, but can be a problem if you are in front of them.
They are precisely built and cast a carefully aimed beam of light that in most cases should not be a problem for oncoming motorists.
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There is also a movement by many to purchase cheap aftermarket replacement bulbs that give a similarly bright white light — but an improperly controlled one that casts a broad band of light in every direction.
These lights are usually found in older or less expensive vehicles replacing the factory-installed bulbs.
A couple of year ago the Canadian Association of Optometrists and the Opticians Association of Canada launched a program called Drive Away The Glare to raise awareness of the problem.
These eye-care professionals explained that the pupil in the eye grows in size in the dark to allow more light to enter the eye. Our eyes "adjust to the dark."
As the pupil grows or dilates, optical quality gets worse and in many cases, this leads to the perception of halos or rings around headlights or other bright sources like street lamps. You may not even realize you are seeing these halos and glare, considering such effects as normal.
Lighter coloured eyes are more susceptible to glare and we become more sensitive to glare as we get older. The eyes of middle-aged and older drivers take longer to adjust to changing light levels.
For example, 55 year-old eyes take eight times longer to recover from glare than those of a 16 year-old! Eye care experts say halos and glare are usually caused by something called spherical aberration, which is common and cannot be corrected with standard glasses or contact lenses.
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Under normal conditions the lens at the front of the eye is clear so light can pass through uninterrupted. Cataracts create a cloudy lens, blurring vision and affecting the way you see light. Even if you have regular eye checkups, up-to-date glasses or lens and good health, you are likely to be faced with the issue of halos and glare.
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Clean your windshield — With the prominence of plastic and similar chemical –based products inside today's vehicles, there is always a layer of chemical by-product on the inside of the windshield. A thorough and frequent cleaning will eliminate this layer, which contributes to glare.
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Clean your wiper blades — they can cause a smear across the glass, which is a major contributor to glare. Dip a paper towel in washer fluid and wipe the rubber blades to remove oxidized rubber and grime.
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When faced with oncoming traffic at night, avoid looking straight at it. Look down and to the right, looking at the painted line on the side of the road, if there, or where the road meets the shoulder until the vehicle passes. You can still see the vehicle and monitor its progress with your peripheral vision.
Continually scan the scene ahead. Do not fix on a certain spot, but look to either side regularly. This will not only alert you to animals, cyclists and pedestrians, but help keep your eyes moist and vision flexible.
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Do not wear sunglasses at night! They not only restrict your night vision, but as your eyes become accustomed to that practice they become less effective during the day.
If all else fails, restrict your night-time driving to areas that have good overhead lighting and clean pavement markings.


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EPA has received specific exemption requests from the states of Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, New York, Oregon, Utah, and Washington, to use the pesticide spirotetramat (CAS No. 203313-25-1) to treat onion, dry bulb to control thrips. The applicants are proposing the use of a chemical whose registration was recently vacated. EPA is soliciting public comment before making the decision whether or not to grant the exemptions.
Comments must be received on or before March 29, 2010.
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Under section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 U.S.C. 136p), at the discretion of the Administrator, a Federal or State agency may be exempted from any provision of FIFRA if the Administrator determines that emergency conditions exist which require the exemption. Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, New York, Oregon, Utah, and Washington have requested that the Administrator issue specific exemptions for the use of spirotetramat (CAS No. 203313-25-1) on onion, dry bulb, to control thrips. Information in accordance with 40 CFR part 166 was submitted as part of these requests, and is available for review at www.regulations.gov under Docket ID Number 2010-0178.
In 2009, all of the applicants submitted first-time exemption requests for the use of spirotetramat on dry bulb onions to control thrips. Based on the information provided in those 2009 applications, the Agency concurred with the applicants that spirotetramat was necessary to ensure thrips control in areas experiencing thrips resistant to available alternatives and, in particular, where 6 to 8 seasonal applications of alternative pesticides are required to achieve adequate control. Thrips are sucking insects and growers are concerned about managing them because their feeding behavior can vector a plant disease known as Iris Yellow Spot Virus. At this time, managing the disease vector thrips is the grower's main strategy for controlling Iris Yellow Spot Virus. The Agency has confirmed this as an urgent, non-routine situation with potential for significant economic losses requiring the use of spirotetramat. As part of their 2010 recertification requests, the applicants assert that the emergency conditions described in their 2009 applications continue to exist. EPA will review the applications and other available data. The 2009 and 2010 application packages for each state are available for review at www.regulations.gov under Docket ID Number 2010-0178. Summary use information for each state in this unit.
1. Colorado: The Colorado Department of Agriculture proposes to make no more than 2 applications of Movento (which contains 22.4% spirotetramat) on a maximum of 10,000 acres of onion, dry bulb between May 16 and September 30, 2010 in the Colorado counties of Adams, Boulder, Larimer, Morgan, Weld, Baca, Bent, Crowley, Otero, Prowers, Pueblo, Delta, and Montrose.
2. Idaho: The Idaho State Department of Agriculture proposes to make no more than 2 applications of Movento on a maximum of 9,000 acres of onion, dry bulb between May 15 and September 15, 2010 in the Idaho counties of Ada, Canyon, Gem, Owyhee, Payette, and Washington.
3. Michigan: The Michigan Department of Agriculture proposes to make no more than 2 applications of Movento on a maximum of 3,800 acres of onion, dry bulb between June and September, 2010 in Michigan.
4. New York: The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation proposes to make no more than 2 applications of Movento on a maximum of 13,000 acres of onion, dry bulb between June 1, and September 15, 2010 in Orange, Orleans, Genesee, Oswego, Madison, Lewis, Herkimer, Steuben, Yates, Ontario, Wayne, and other counties of New York State.
5. Oregon: The Oregon Department of Agriculture proposes to make no more than 2 applications of Movento on a maximum of 21,900 acres of onion, dry bulb between April 15 and September 15, 2010 in the Oregon counties of Malheur, Morrow, Umatilla, Clackamas, Marion, and Klamath.
6. Utah: The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food proposes to make no more than 2 applications of Movento on a maximum of 1,753 acres of onion, dry bulb between June 1 and September 1, 2010 in the Utah counties of Box Elder, Weber, and Davis.
7. Washington: The Washington State Department of Agriculture proposes to make no more than 2 applications of Movento on a maximum 20,000 acres of onion, dry bulb between May 15 and September 15, 2010 in the Washington counties of Adams, Benton, Franklin, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, and Yakima.
This notice does not constitute a decision by EPA on the applications themselves, but provides an opportunity for public comment on the applications. EPA has determined that publication of a notice of receipt of these applications for specific exemptions is appropriate taking into consideration the December 23, 2009 decision of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York vacating the registration of the spirotetramat product that is the subject of these emergency exemption requests. This vacatur is available for review at www.regulations.gov under Docket ID Number 2010-0178.
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Editors note: This is the sixth of a six-part series. Click here to read part one, here for part two, here for part three, here for part four and here for part five.
The most profitable area on Wall Street for the past ten years has been the creation of "structured products," hybrid securities that are part cash instrument (like a bond) and part derivative (like an option). Companies have used these products, primarily through the issuance of hybrid equity and fixed income securities, more than any other form over the recent past to raise funds in the primary market because they afford a much greater degree of flexibility. Credit worthy companies can cheapen the cost of capital by "selling" away the volatility of their stock ,while non-credit worthy companies can access the capital markets like never before.
These securities take many forms but they all basically involve a cash instrument plus embedded derivatives to tailor the security to fit the needs of the issuer. One of the oldest and easiest structured products is the convertible bond.
A convertible bond is a debt instrument that can be converted into shares of the issuer at the option of the holder, making the structure part debt and part equity. Convertible bonds have many similarities to straight debt: they can be interest bearing or zero coupons, senior or subordinated, can contain puts, be callable by the issuer, and have maturities anywhere from 1 year to 30 years. The key difference between straight debt and convertible debt lies in the option of the holder to convert the debt into common stock. This can be viewed then as a straight bond plus an imbedded option to buy the common stock (see part one of this series). The strike price of the option is known as the conversion price and is set at a premium to the stock price at issue.
We will use the Tyco's (TYC:NYSE) January issue of 2.75% convertible bonds due 1/15/18 as an example. When the bond was issued, TYC stock was at $17.26 per share. The conversion price was set at $22.78, a 32% premium to the stock price at issue. The conversion ratio is the number of shares each bond can be converted into and is found by dividing the issue price of the bond by the conversion price. The TYC bonds were issued at $1,000 so the conversion ratio is 43.89 shares ($1,000 / $22.78). The investor can either take the $1000 principal back at maturity or 43.89 shares of stock. If the value of those 43.89 shares is greater than $1000 at maturity, the investor will rationally take the shares. The value of the shares an investor can convert into is called parity and is found by multiplying the conversion ratio by the current share price. If TYC stock is at $18, then parity on the bonds would be $790 or 79% of face value. As the price of the stock rises, parity rises and as the stock climbs over the conversion price the total value will exceed $1000.
The coupon on the bonds works just like a coupon on straight debt. With a coupon of 2.75% the TYC bonds pay $27.50 per year, paid semi-annually. The coupon rate issuers pay on convertible bonds is less than the coupon they would pay pari passu on straight debt because investors are willing to accept a lower coupon in exchange for the right to convert the bonds into shares (value of the imbedded option). If the stock rises in price above the conversion price, the convertibles will outperform the straight debt (due to the convertibility) and under-perform the common stock (due to the premium paid). If the stock drops below the conversion price, the convertibles will outperform the common stock (due to ability to receive par at maturity) and under-perform the straight debt (due to the lower coupon).
Most new structured products are variations of others. An example is convertible preferred securities, which are very similar to convertible bonds with the only difference being the ranking of the security in the capital structure and the maturity (typically 30 years or longer). They pay dividends as opposed to coupons and are convertible just like convertible bonds.
Another variation is mandatorily convertible preferreds (mandatories), which are one of the most issued structured securities in the public markets. The reason for their highly structured nature is tax and accounting related and pertains to the issuer. We will skip over those details and focus on investor concerns. Mandatories are typically issued at $25 or $50 par and pay a dividend of approximately 6% to 10%. As their name suggests, mandatories automatically convert to stock at maturity, typically three to five years from the issue date. The conversion rate for a mandatory varies depending on the stock price at maturity.
As a generic example, assume a company issues a mandatory with a $50 par value and the stock of the issuer is $25 at issue. Also assume the mandatory has a 20% conversion premium and pays a 7% dividend ($3.50 per year paid quarterly). The conversion ratio at maturity is as follows:
The following is a comparison of the value at maturity of the mandatory versus the value at maturity of 2 shares of common stock, the number of shares an investor could have purchased if they spent $50 on common instead of the mandatory.
In the graph of conversion value at maturity, it is obvious that the mandatory holder underperforms the stock holder on the upside (stock above $25) and performs equally with stock prices below $25. This however does not factor in the present value of the dividends received by the investor. Once these are factored in, the line will shift up by that present value amount and the mandatory holder will outperform the stock on the downside and when the stock doesn't appreciate significantly and under-perform the stock if the price rises significantly. Basically a mandatory is a convertible bond plus an embedded call spread (the investor is short a slightly out-of-the-money call and long more than one higher strike calls). The spread causes the bond to be mandatorily converted into stock at maturity.
There are two typical investors in convertible securities whose behavior is very different. Outright investors purchase convertible bonds for their downside protection (debt similarity) and purchase convertible preferreds and mandatories for their yield and stock sensitivity. Outright investors are making bets on the equity and will typically not hedge their positions. Arbitrage investors such as hedge funds purchase convertible bonds to take advantage of the stock volatility (embedded option) and preferreds and mandatories for their yield advantage to the underlying common. Arbitrageurs will typically short stock to hedge their positions and may also purchase credit derivatives to further protect themselves on the debt portion. The arbitrager is focusing on extracting the relative value of the imbedded options.
It is typical for the stocks of companies that issue convertibles to fall a bit when they announce a new deal. This drop is part due to the implied stock dilution if the convertibles were converted and part due to arbitrageurs who will short stock going into pricing so they can hedge their stock risk. Other types of investors who purchase convertible bonds are distressed debt funds, corporate debt funds and some individual investors.
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Re: Rage Achievement
Hehe, yeah.
Re: when in doubt rage quit
You'll get banned for doing that too many times, lol
Re: It's Not Only a Game, It's Art
Nice. I think he should have a headset and a mouse, too.
stingray69 wrote:I don't get this mashup. I mean, I get Doctor Who and Guitar Hero but why are they together?
With Netflix on the various gaming systems, the line between games and watching series TV blurs. So, the play on words w/ Tardis and Guitar led to the mashup...
Re: LIFE-style
I love this! I'm a huge fan of the game of Life, so thats part makes me want this even more!!
Re: SuperPuppet2
Hope you like it!!
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Re: Victory through Chaos
I have a girlfriend I would need to buy this shirt for. :^)
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Hope you like it! :D
Its dangerous to go without a shirt. Take this.
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Re: A Perfect Life
That looks sta-taste-ic-ally accurate.
I'm high scoring this with a +1, Boots.
ZOMG. Woot is turning into ICANHAZ.
He is a dollbaby
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Thank you.. Roxy is da bOss! loll
well done as usual.
dmbrown111 wrote:He is a dollbaby
Re: Grown Boy
All grown up, but hasn't left the basement.
Love it! +1
dmbrown111 wrote:Thank you.. Roxy is da bOss! loll
You do understand that this is a derby competition to be on a tee shirt? With a theme and rules and stuff?
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Like the changes a lot.
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This definitely looks more melted or like a photoshop filter than squished. When something is flattened things gets disproportionate and blown out not drippy...
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Thanks to you and oakenspirit and cdrewlow and everyone else for your pre-derby brainstorming help!
Mavyn wrote:You do understand that this is a derby competition to be on a tee shirt? With a theme and rules and stuff?
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thePenrod wrote:I'm not sure many gamers would even know what half of those utensils are.
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lyonscc wrote:With Netflix on the various gaming systems, the line between games and watching series TV blurs. So, the play on words w/ Tardis and Guitar led to the mashup...
Netflix streaming is a pretty flimsy defense for this mashup.
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A Billion Photos Shared Each Day, Advertisers Nervous
According to Mary Meeker, we're now uploading and sharing more than 500 million photos a day. By this time next year it will be a billion a day.
Which is awesome — pretty soon I won't need to feel self-conscious about sharing so many pictures of my kids on Facebook. (I'm pretty darn adorable, just for being related to them — right?!) My narcissism, at least on a relative scale, will experience a refreshing decline as greater narcissists outpace me.
But here's the rub. The vast majority of those photos are posted to ad-supported sites — Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr — or apps that are free to consumers (such as Snapchat) and therefore will likely pursue some kind of ad model eventually. Advertisers almost always follow consumers to a new media property once the sheer number of consumers gets too large to ignore. Take the recent rise of WorldStarHipHop. According to American Public Media's Marketplace:
In recent days, ads for Fiber One, Walmart and Bloomingdale's have appeared on WorldStarHipHop. O'Denat [WorldStarHipHop's founder] says the site's racier content used to be a problem for advertisers.
"Advertisers were afraid of us," he said. "We were kind of risque. We had girls in thongs, fights. Not until later on they decided, well, the site is too big. We're just gonna have to work with them."
When Facebook landed in hot water this week, though, it wasn't for thongs or fights. It acknowledged that its "systems to identify and remove hate speech have failed to work as effectively as we would like, particularly around issues of gender-based hate." More specifically, as one advocacy group brought to light, Facebook ran advertising on pages with names like "Violently Raping Your Friend Just for Laughs." Oy. I'm betting Facebook has already rolled out a solution to prevent this kind of thing from happening again — software has gotten pretty good at reading text on a page and understanding when that text is objectionable.
Managing brand safety is really hard to do, though, when it comes to photo content at enormous scale. It's still a whole lot easier to flag the word "rape" than it is to recognize a visual depiction of the crime inside one of those hundreds of millions of new photos that its members publish to the site each day. Advertisers are more than eager to pitch their wares to the enormous audiences at Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr and Snapchat — assuming they won't tarnish their brands in the process. Figuring out that last part, especially as it pertains to user-submitted photos, is fast becoming a ginormous marketing opportunity. A billions-upon-billions of dollars opportunity.
(Disclosure: Until recently I worked at Luminate, one company that's working on aspects of image recognition, including a visual brand watch system. I hope they succeed, partly because the online ecosystem will benefit from happy, confident advertisers, and partly — let's be honest here — because those cute kids you see too often on Facebook want to go to college some day.)


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BUSTER: Uh, isn't someone missing? Where's the giant vegetable grower?
MAN: My son, Scotty? He's right up there.
SCOTTY: Hey, Buster!
BUSTER: You're not a giant.
SCOTTY: I'm not a giant, but I grow giant pumpkins.
BUSTER: "Giant pumpkins"?
SCOTTY: Come on, you'll see.
BO: Have fun, Buster.
BUSTER: How big are these giant pumpkins?
SCOTTY: Big.
BUSTER: Hi, puppy. Bigger than a watermelon?
SCOTTY: Bigger.
BUSTER: Bigger than a beach ball?
BUSTER: Bigger than a dog?
BUSTER: Bigger than a refrigerator?
SCOTTY: Buster, you're just going to have to see for yourself.
This big.
BUSTER: Are you sure this pumpkin isn't from outer space?
SCOTTY: I grew this pumpkin myself.
BUSTER: Sorry, I didn't mean you were from outer space.
SCOTTY: It's okay, don't worry about it.
BUSTER: Just to be sure — antennas? Nope. Green pointy tail? Negative. So, an ordinary Earth kid can grow something this big? How?
SCOTTY: We plant a seed, and we start it in our bathroom. We have lots of heaters — it's about 90 degrees — and we plant it in a one-gallon milk jug. So it starts out small. And we keep it in there for about two weeks, until they're probably about five inches high. And we plant it out here, and we leave it like that for about a month.
BUSTER: How fast does it grow?
SCOTTY: These pumpkins can grow, as an average, ten to 15 pounds per day.
BUSTER: 15 pounds a day?! That's incredible! Even Binky couldn't do that.
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It's been a long month of celebrations.
So far, we've collected freebies for Labor Day on Sept. 2, International Literacy Day and Grandparents Day on Sept. 8, Cheeseburger Day on the 18th and Talk Like a Pirate Day on Sept. 19.
A few "holidays" we skipped (no freebies): Blame Someone Else Day on Friday the 13th (not my fault, no one told me), Elephant Appreciation Day on the 22nd (I forgot), Dog in Politics Day on the 23rd, (they're on to something there) and Ask a Stupid Question Day on the 28th (who comes up with these?).
On Sunday, our cups runneth over. It's National Coffee Day.
Grab free jolts of joe at these South Florida spots:
Dunkin' Donuts is giving away free small cups of hot or iced coffee with a mobile coupon on the chain's free smartphone app for iPhone or Android. After you download the app, click the "My Offers" tab to get meal and drink deals. Save two bucks on Dunkin' coffee, on sale for $5.99 a bag or $7.99 for K-cups.
Einstein Bros. Bagels is giving away free iced or hot coffees and lattes of any size when you buy one with a coupon. Get it at SunSentinel.com/Einstein.
Krispy Kreme is giving away free small coffees. No purchase or coupon is necessary. Stores also are selling small iced, mocha and pumpkin spice lattes for $1. There are locations in Tamarac, Fort Lauderdale and North Miami.
Starbucks is giving tastes of its new Ethiopia roast. Get a free ceramic tasting cup with purchase of a one-pound bag, which sells for $13.95.
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ORLANDO, Florida — J.J. Redick scored 24 points, Arron Afflalo and Glen Davis each had 22 points, and Nikola Vucevic added 18 points and 13 rebounds as the Orlando Magic rallied to beat the Phoenix Suns 115-94 Sunday night (Monday, Manila time).
The Magic trailed by as many as 13 points early in the second half, but used a 40-point third quarter to build as much as a 21-point cushion in the fourth.
Luis Scola led the Suns with 24 points and Michael Beasley added 22. But Phoenix's shooting eroded overall in the second half.
With the victory, the Magic opened a season 2-0 for the first time since 2009-10. The Suns lost their fifth straight game in Orlando.
The Magic hit the road for the first time Tuesday for back-to-back games at Chicago and Minnesota.
In just its second game of the season, Orlando coach Jacque Vaughn had to go to his bench to fill his starting lineup because of injuries to point guard Jameer Nelson and small forward Hedo Turkoglu.
Turkoglu broke a bone in his left hand during the Magic's season-opening victory Friday over Denver. Nelson made it through that game, but afterward was diagnosed with a strained hamstring and groin, and sprained ankle.
Vaughn gave rookie DeQuan Jones and free agent pickup E'Twaun Moore the nod in their place. Moore played with Boston last season, but it was the first NBA start for Jones.
It was hard to tell if the Magic missed a beat without them, though.
The Suns led 71-60 early in the third quarter before the Magic went on a 26-5 run to take an 86-76 edge entering the fourth. In all, the Orlando outscored Phoenix 40-20 for the period, connecting on six 3-pointers and 16 of 24 shots.
At one point during the spurt, Davis knocked a loose ball out of bounds off a Suns' defender and he turned and implored the crowd, which replied by cheering loudly in support.
The Magic rode that boost into the final period and the Suns never really threatened the rest of the way as Orlando continued to get shots to fall in bunches.
For the game, Orlando connected on 9 of 11 3-pointers. The Magic held a double-digit advantage on points in the paint for the second consecutive game.
During the Nuggets' win, Vaughn managed to mask the youth and inexperience on his roster with a strong shooting night and a huge advantage scoring in the paint.
There was no hiding it Sunday, though, as Phoenix spread the floor and pushed the pace early. It forced the youthful Magic lineup into several ball control turnovers in the half court, which keyed several Suns' breaks in the early going.
Phoenix also lived in the paint in the first two quarters, scoring 26 of their points there in building a 56-46 halftime lead.
Scola was the most active for Phoenix, scoring 16 points for a Suns' team that shot 50 percent from the field in the opening 24 minutes.
The Magic stayed within striking distance, though, connecting on all four of their attempts from beyond the arc.
NOTES: There was a 12-minute delay between the first and second quarters after the net was partially torn down during a trampoline dunking promotion. ...Vaughn said he expects the night off Sunday to give Nelson an extra day to be ready for their first road trip beginning Tuesday in Chicago. ... Turkoglu had surgery Saturday on the broken bone in his left hand. He'll miss at least four weeks. ... Suns coach Alvin Gentry said he's known Vaughn since he was in high school and pointed out other shared connections as a former assistant at Vaughn's collegiate alma mater Kansas and later with the Spurs. Gentry said he expects the first-year coach to have a long career in the NBA coaching ranks. "If you really look at it, we've kind of been to the same places," he said. "He's gonna be fine."